ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights how privileged migrants are hindered in the realization of their lifestyle aspirations by their need to assert their own cultural and bodily boundaries over intimate engagements with foreign bodies. Moreover, privileged migrants in Cuenca are a distinct and self-identifying social group, due to their own foreign status, but they are by no means homogenous, and economic, political and geographical divisions that existed pre-migration are being usurped by new, more locally salient and contextual boundaries. The chapter describes the role that eating plays in creating these emerging boundaries among migrants, thereby elucidating how food and its spaces create new sites of distinction. The realization of the scarcity of organic food is often cited by privileged migrants as one of their greatest disappointments and one of their most pressing practical concerns. Consequently their definition of a simple life is being constantly renegotiated, as they look to reconcile their expectations and desires with the reality of everyday eating experiences.
